Proverbs 15:1

Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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Genesis 32:4
He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

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Joshua 22:21
Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

Acts 11:4
But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,

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Judges 8:1
The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.

Judges 8:2
He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

Judges 12:1
The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”

Judges 12:4
Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”

2 Chronicles 10:13
The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the old men,

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1 Kings 12:7
They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”

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Proverbs 14:33
Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

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Proverbs 14:17
He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

Proverbs 16:32
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Proverbs 17:27
He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Hebrews 12:14
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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Job 16:3
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Malachi 3:13
“Your words have been harsh against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

Colossians 2:4
Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

2 Peter 2:3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

3 John 1:10
Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, he doesn’t receive the brothers himself, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.

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